Completely new. Confused

amaterasuthird
amaterasuthird Posts: 24 Member
edited March 2019 in Introduce Yourself
So, maybe it's my ineptness regarding fitness, but I've been working out for a few months now, finally started to control my diet and my intake, got a food scale and I'm now tracking everything. I'm trying to track my exercise too, but it seems this site's tools are lacking in a few areas? I tried to find a leg tuck and lift, and the plank in the database, and had no luck. I'm struggling to find quite a few of the exercises I do regularly each day.

Any suggestions? Also, I put in my age and weight, but for some reason (despite my fitness friend saying my intake should be roughly 9000 kilojules a day), which is the average for a semi-fit woman of my age and height, the myfitness pal app says my daily should be just under 7000. That seems too little to me, and probably not providing the proper level of nutrients my body needs. I do roughly 45 minutes of strength exercises, roughly an hour of cardio most days, except every 3rd which is abs/rest day.

Am I doing something wrong?

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  • luckykarma83
    luckykarma83 Posts: 32 Member
    Hi, I'm happy to help, you can add me as a friend if you like! I couldn't find those exercises in the database either, but the good news is you can just add them to the database. You may have to do some research on how many calories they burn, bit that's easy enough if you use a HRM.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Calisthenics for the exercises you mention.

    As for the calorie goal, you are in control of that based on your activity level and rate of loss. Plus tgat calorie goal doesn't include exercise.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Calisthenics for the exercises you mention.

    As for the calorie goal, you are in control of that based on your activity level and rate of loss. Plus tgat calorie goal doesn't include exercise.

    This ^. The MFP goal doesn't include exercise, you are expected to log exercise and eat back the extra calories it gives you. So your mfp goal is 7000 + Exercise cals.

    Check out the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each forum, lots of great info there too!

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